Hi all,
I've been out of the game for a few months and just got round to installing 3.0.1. Testing it out today in the back yard it seemed to work fine until I switched to Alt-Hold. In Alt-Hold mode the just kept wanting to climb until I switched it b
Read more…How do I connect a non 3dr (sparkfun) current sensor to the APM2.5? Same way as the 2.0?
The manual appears to be missing most of its pictures (http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-using-a-current-sensor/). Apologies if this has been covered alread
Read more…At first I put it down to a few corrupted entries, but after a few flights all my logs have looked something like this:
Some of those GPS points must be on another planet, they persist as far out as google earth will let me zoom!
Also, all the NTUN and
Read more…Went for my first APM fixed wing flight this morning. It wasn't a great success, though through no fault of the APM.
I had the APM, RX and GPS sitting in the Bixler electronics chasis. I had a Gopro gaffer taped to the spine just in front of the engin
Read more…I have this Fatshark FPV kit from hobbyking. I've installed the TX on my quad. I'd like to get another TX to mount on my bixler and use with the goggles I have from the above kit.
Will any 5.8GHz TX do the job, or is there something special I need to
Read more…Well I went out this morning to try and fly my Bixler for the first time. I have quite a bit of multirotor flying experience, but no fixed wing outside of a simulator. I guess predictably it ended in failure.
I'm guessing my first two hand launches we
Read more…Just got back from an awesome session of trying 2.7.3 for the first time. Got to use RTL for the first time, it worked! Pretty exhilarating.
Anyway, I get home to comb through the logs, and theres nothing. Did I miss something in setup, or are these d
Read more…I should note to begin that I'm running Planner in Virtual Box running Windows 7 32bit.
Ran an update to mission planner and now when I launch ArduPilotMega10.exe I get the following:
So I tried downloading and running the installer (MissionPlanner32-1
Read more…On occasion when hovering I find my quad descends all the way to ground without being commanded to do so. Nothing spectacular, it just sinks until it touches the ground then sometimes comes back up a bit. Increasing the throttle doesn't necessarily s
Read more…Originally posted this in the Arducopter category not realising there was one specifically for the APM2. Might get more help here.
Just got my APM2 today. I've been trying to connect it to Mission Planner running in Virtual Box. However, whenever I tr
Read more…I managed to break the antenna off my Turnigy 9x Rx in a crash. The grey lead was cut about halfway down, disconnecting the big red heat shrink wrapped thing.
In doing this, have I severely reduced the range of my radio?
The wire looks like it's a very
Read more…The first I took my quad out to test 2.5.3 loiter was a bit sketchy. The quad screamed from one edge of the field to the other, overshooting by a greater amount each time. (See below, it started somewhere in the middle. The pattern is about 35m acros
Read more…Yep, it looks like I'm that retarded. I was in the process of wiring up a USB plug up to my quad to power my GoPro. Well, I mistakenly hooked it up to 12V direct from the battery instead of regulated 5V and POP it went. A bit of smoke even came out t
Read more…I just installed a 6 position switch in my Tunigy 9x Tx to use as my mode selector. Previously I'd been mixing Ch5 and Ch6 to get 6 postions for modes. As a result I had nothing connected to the Ch6 input.
Now that I've reclaimed Ch6 I want to use it
Read more…I've been using cheap and nasty 9g servos for my mount, one came from sparkfun, one from HK, others elsewhere. Anyway, I'm now 3 for 3 in having stripped the gears in them, they don't seem up to the task.
I'd like to get a feel for what actually works
Read more…Flew for the first time in a while this morning, my first test of 2.2. I ran into an issue where in ALT_HOLD mode at low level the quad would gradually sink into the ground. From memory I had this issue with other FW versions too, so it's probably my
Read more…Just loaded 2.0.55 (three times all up) and for some reason the gyros refuse to initialise. Running the IMU command in CLI just keeps displaying * characters after "Initialising gyros" but never resolves.
Is my board broken? The only change I've made
Read more…I'm running Mission Planner in a virtual Windows 7 machine in VirtualBox on OSX Lion. I was using 1.0.66 and just installed the new 1.0.98 and I've found it to be so slow it's practically useless.
Why the sudden downturn in performance, what did I mis
Read more…Just upgraded my quad to 2.0.51 from 2.0.40 (been out of it for a while!). Doing it all through CLI as I can't get the new Mission Planner working in virtualbox.
Anyway when I reboot it after loading the code, in the CLI I get "Firmware change: erasin
Read more…I've noticed a few posts claiming sonar noise can be reduced by shielding the cable. What's the consensus on how to do this? I've seen some posts saying the ground the shielding at both ends, others just one. I'd appreciate any thoughts/feedback.
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